"Notes on 'Camp'" was first published as an essay in 1964, and was her first contribution to the Partisan Review.[3] The essay attracted interest in Sontag.
The essay was republished in 1966 in Sontag's debut collection of essays, Against Interpretation.[4] The essay considers meanings and connotations of the word "camp".[2]
Synopsisedit
The essay is structured with a brief introduction, followed by a list of 58 "notes" on what camp is, or might be.
Christopher Isherwood is mentioned in Sontag's essay: "Apart from a lazy two-page sketch in Christopher Isherwood's novel The World in the Evening (1954), [camp] has hardly broken into print."[2] In Isherwood's novel two characters are discussing the meaning of camp, both High and Low. Stephen Monk, the protagonist, says:
You thought it meant a swishy little boy with peroxided hair, dressed in a picture hat and a feather boa, pretending to be Marlene Dietrich? Yes, in queer circles they call that camping. … You can call [it] Low Camp…High Camp is the whole emotional basis for ballet, for example, and of course of baroque art … High Camp always has an underlying seriousness. You can't camp about something you don't take seriously. You're not making fun of it, you're making fun out of it. You're expressing what’s basically serious to you in terms of fun and artifice and elegance. Baroque art is basically camp about religion. The ballet is camp about love …[5]
^What Is Camp? These Sci-Fi Movies Explain. Film 101. Turner Classic Movies. Jun 1, 2023. Retrieved 2023-10-30.
^ abcSontag, Susan. Notes on "Camp". Penguin Random House (2018). ISBN978-0241339701
^Sontag, Susan (Fall 1964). "Notes on 'Camp'". Partisan Review. 31 (4): 515–530.
^DeMott, Benjamin (January 23, 1966). . The New York Times Book Review. The New York Times. pp. 5, 32. Archived from the original on July 14, 2017. Retrieved April 14, 2016.
^Isherwood, Christopher. The World in the Evening. University of Minnesota Press. 2012 p. 10 ISBN9780099561149
^Isherwood, Christopher. The World in the Evening’’. University of Minnesota Press. 2012 ISBN9780099561149 p. 10-11
^"The Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute Presents "Camp: Notes on Fashion" for Its Spring 2019 Exhibition". Vogue. 9 October 2018. Retrieved 2019-06-03.
^Bekhrad, Joobin. "What does it mean to be camp?". www.bbc.com. Retrieved 2023-10-30.
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